B5: Infinite range heavy beams? - Reply

> Tom McCarthy wrote:

> We played a game with the EarthForce SourceBook spaceship combat rules

> From 70 MUs away, a Narn assault cruiser fired a 2-dice heavy beam

> Have we misread the rules, or are we misjudging what we see as a

To which Indy, masquerading as "Ahhhhhhh... carbon monoxide..." (?), replied:

> Hmmmm... good question; hadn't thought of that before (like I've had

I'd disagree with the "can't hit" idea, if only because we've seen
very-long-range
shots taken by Narn ships in episodes like TLTS. My feeling for the situation
would be to remove the re-roll at VLR (defined as above), but allow some
damage to be caused if a 6 is rolled. How much? Dunno -- maybe 1/2 D6
worth?
> From a practical physics point of view, VLR beam shots have good points
So let's keep the VLR capability, but tweak the rules to keep it from throwing
the system out of whack.

Phil